Advertising apparatus.



PATENTBD APR, 18, 1905.

E. WILSGN., ADVERTISING APPARATUS.

AIPLIOATION FILED DBC'. 12, 1904.

Patented April 18, 1905.

UNiTsn STATES ATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT lYlLSON, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

ADVERTISING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION fornlng part of Letters Patent No. 787,420, dated April 18, 1905.

Application filed December 12, 1904. Serial No. 236,624.

le it known that I, l'touaa'r lViLsoa, a citi- Zen of' the United States, residing at St. Louis, Missouri, have invented a new and useful Advertising .\pparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to advertising apparatus. and comprises the novelcombination, arrangement, and association of parts, as herein shown, described, and clailned.

The object of this invention is fo provide an advertising apparatus comprising one or more displays, such as cards or objects, ar

ranged upon movable supports connected by gear or pulley-and-belt mechanism with a nio tor device for moving the cards or objects, thereby more surely to attract attention of the public, The entire mechanism is preferably supported upon a pivot, so that the displays may be turned toward either direction and to accommodate the motor.

In the drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of the device in which the motor eniployed is a windmill. Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same.

The apparatus is designed especially for operation by wind and is arranged in connection with an innige of some animal by means of crank-and-limb connection in order to give the appearance of being propelled b v such image. ll'ith such purposes in view l provide a base 1` upon which is pivoted a snpporting member 2, the latter carrying two vertical posts 3. The upperendsof the posts 3 carry a shaft 4, upon which is mounted a wurd-wheel 5, the blades of which may be of either wood or metal or other material found to be suitable. A vane 6 is attached to one end of the shaft a. so that the displays will be held to windward. A small pulley' or wheel T is attached to the hub of the wind-wheel Two arms S project horizontally and parallel from the posts 3 and support a rod or shaft 9, upon which is a large pulley or wheel ll). A lwltorchain 11 passes around the two pulleys or wheels T and ll), so that when the windwheel is driven the said wheel 1o and the rod or shaft 2J will be rotated. The shaft 1 cai'- ries a sleeve 12 separate from the hub of the wind-wheel and a pulley or wheel 13 is fixed thereon. A small pulley or wheel '11 is attached on the rod or shaft S), and a belt or chain 15 passes around said two pulleys or wheels l?) and 1-1, so that when the wind-wheel 5 is rotated the sleeve. 12 will also be rotated, but owing to the differential belt-and-pulley connection the said sleeve will be driven at a much slower speed than the wind-wln.\el. A series of arms le are attached to a hub 1T on the sleeve 12 and project radially. The outer end of each of said arms 16 is bent, as indicated at 1S, to provide means of attachment for thel objects or displays, such as 19. The displays are pivotally connected to the arms 1li, and therefore maintain a relatively constant position. These displays may be in the form of cards containing printed matter, or objects themselves,l or forms signifying any particular class of goods or merchandise, or cut to represent taule-marks, or, in fact, any preferred type of displays.

To increase attraction and enhance novelty of appearance, a form of some animal, such as 20, is connected, by means of a flexible limb, to a crank Q1 on one end of the rod or shaft 9, so that when the device is in operation the crank will oscillate the flexible limb, giving the appearance that the animal-form supplies the motive power. The animal image Q1) may typify any class of articles, as

well as thc displays on the arms 1G. The image Q0 is mounted upon a platform connected to one of the post-s 3.

I claini 1. A n apparatus of the class described, comprising a shaft, a motor-wheel on said shaft, a series of revoluble arms upheld by said shaft, differential driving connections operable by the motor-wlael and adapted to move the arms at slower speed than the motorwheel, an animal-form having a flexible limb connect-ed to part of the driving connections, for the purpose specified, and a pivotally-supported frame supporting' all of said parts.

An apparatus of the class described comprising a motor-wheel, a shaft supporting said wheel, a sleeve upon said shaft, arms attached to said sleeve, and adapted to carry displays, differential driving connections between the motor-wheel and said sleeve, to

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move the latter at slower speed than the wheel, and an imagev having a iexible limb connected to part of the driving connection, for the purpose specified.

3. An apparatus of the class described comprising, a base, a frame pivot-ed thereon, a shaft carried by said frame, a motor-wheel on said shaft, a sleeve on said shaft, displays carried by said sleeve` a shaft 9, connections for rotating the shaft 9 when the motor-wheel moves, connections Jfrom the shaft 9 to the said sleeve and an image havingafiexible limb leading to the said shaft 9.

a shaft 9, a wheel 10 thereon, a belt 11 passing around said wheels 7 and 10, a second wheel 14 on said shaft 9, a sleeve separate from the motor-wheel on said shaft 4, a Wheel 13 on said sleeve, a belt passing around said wheels 14 and 13, a series of arms adapted to carry displays attached to said sleeve, a crank on the shaft 9, and an image having a iieXble limb connected to the said crank, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

ROBERT VILSON.

'itnesses:

MERCER ARNOLD, J. C. WALKER. 

